Illinois child welfare worker dies after September attack in Milledgeville

By The Associated Press

Thursday

Feb 8, 2018 at 5:37 PMFeb 8, 2018 at 8:43 PM

CHICAGO — Officials say an Illinois child welfare worker has died after being severely beaten last year while trying to take protective custody of a child.

Neil Skene, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, says 59-year-old Pamela Sue Knight died Thursday morning.

Sauk Valley Media reports that the suspect, 25-year-old Andrew Sucher, is accused of kicking Knight in the head so severely that he fractured her skull in September. The attack had caused permanent brain damage and extensive physical disabilities.

Knight was attacked when she went to Sucher's parents' home in Milledgeville to take a 2-year-old boy into protective custody.